ABSTRACT
I have proposed that interpreting is best viewed as a process. Of course, the ideas in an interpretation ought to be correct; and, if the construction is fractionated and built collaboratively with the patient, the ideas are more likely to be correct. But correctness is only part of what makes interpreting effective. The way an analyst puts his contributions to the process also has a great deal to do with the way the patient hears them and the effect they have.
